Prison Sentences: Wales

Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many residents of  (a) Wrexham and  (b) North Wales served custodial sentences of six months or fewer in the last three years for which figures are available;
	(2)  how many residents of  (a) Wrexham and  (b) North Wales served custodial sentences in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Crispin Blunt: Data are published annually on the number of offenders released from prison having served custodial sentences, most recently data for 2008 which was published on the Ministry of Justice website in Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2008 under the following link:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/prisonandprobation.htm
	However, information on offenders' home address is not routinely recorded on the data held centrally, and could be provided only through manual checking of prisoner records at disproportionate cost.
	The following table shows the number of discharges from determinate and life sentences from prisons in England and Wales in each year from 2006 to 2008. Data for 2009 will be published in Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2009 on 22 July 2010.
	
		
			  Number 
			   2006  2007  2008 
			 Up to and including six months 44,000 45,100 51,300 
			 Over six months and up to and including 12 months 8,200 8,700 9,800 
			 12 months and less than four years 23,300 23,600 25,300 
			 Four years and less than life 6,900 8,100 8,600 
			 Lifers 135 146 138